Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

- Bennett, Jill

Best Quotes about Marriage

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

10.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

11.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

12.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

13.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

14.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

15.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

16.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

17.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

18.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

19.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

20.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

21.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

22.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

23.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

24.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

25.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

26.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

27.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

29.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

30.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

31.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

32.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

33.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

34.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

35.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

36.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

37.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

38.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

39.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

40.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

41.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

42.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

43.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

44.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

45.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

46.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

47.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

48.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

49.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris